Arguments on Constitutionality of Adamson 8-Hour Law Began in Supreme Court
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POLICE AND
FIRE SQUADS
FOR C. L & S.
To Build Iron Fence Around
Plant Announces Superin
tendent Irons
TO BUY APPAR AT U S
Will Give Central Iron and
Steel Protection Equal to
Most Modern Plants
Reorganization of the police squad
of the Central Iron and Steel Com
pany, plans for providing adequate
tire protection, the purchase of tire
apparatus, and the erection of a large
iron fence around the plant are being
arranged, Robert H. Irons, general
superintendent, announced at noon to
day.
When completed the improvements
will make the Central Company one
of the most up-to-date industrial
plants in this section for police and
tire protection, it was said. A special
fire alarm box, watch boxes, additional
tire plugs and hose arrangement under
the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks, will
be installed as soon as possible.
No estimate could be given on the
cost of improvements but several
thousands of dollars will be expended
to provide adequate protection. Super
intendent Irons explained that the
company was following the move of
tl.e large corporations in adopting
these plans.
A special committee of officials on
Saturday inspected various pieces of
tire apparatus and arrangements are
being made for the purchase of a suit
able engine for the plant. A fire de
partment will then be organized,
trained and deputized.
The coal and iron police force will
be composed of at least 14 men. it
was said, all of whom will be drilled
for efficient work. Several applica
tions have been received for the posi
tion of chief of the department, but
no one has been selected yet.
Provision will be made" when the
large fence is erected encircling the
plant to install watch boxes and time
clocks at the various entrances.
Up-stream Ice Will
Pass Harrisburg Tonight
Much of the ice on all branches of
the Susquehanna river is afloat above
Harrisburg and is expected to pass
this point to-night and to-morrow. A
few small gorges and Jams have been
reported, but none of them will cause
any serious property damage, owing
to the low water stage.
The ice at this point moved out
yesterday afternoon at 2.05 o'clock.
At 2.45 o'clock the river stage was
5.3 feet. A stage of 6.5 feet is pre
dicted for to-morrow morning.
Colder weather last evening sent the
mercury down to 28. Fair weather
will prevail to-night and to-morrow
•throughout eastern Pennsylvania, with
■ slight rise in temperature. A cold
wave may reach this section of the
country In a few days.
When the ice moved cut vesterday a
large part of the trestle work on the
new Cumberland Valley bridge, erected
by the Robert Graves Contracting Com
pany, was badly damaged, causing a
loss of S3OO. Repairs were made this
morning and when the river recedes
much of the trestle work will be
salvaged.
Wood Pulp Shortage May
Close Large Paper Mills
International Falls. Minn,, Jan, 8
Unless a quantity of wood pulp is re
reived by the International Pails Paper
Mills of the Minnesota and Ontario
Pow-e*- < 'ooipany to-day the mill will
t>e forced Uj shut down temporarily,
according tt) a statement made bv- s,
W.. Backus, vice-president of the
company to-day..
"Ouf condition with regard to wood
♦HJip is serious," said Mr. Backus.
'The snow and cold weather this vear
came late which in a way handicapped
us. Then tha strike of the woodsmen
could not have been held at a better
time to cripple us."
Should the mill here suspend work
it would mean the closing of the mill
at Spooner which would throw ap
proximately 1,500 men out of employ
ment. A large number of middle
west ad southern daily newspapers
receive their supply of paper from
these mills.
THE WEATHER
HarrUiMirg and viciaityt Fair
to-night and Tueariay. mhhm but
warmer to-aieht with lowct tem
perature about frerilns.
Kaatcrn Peuunjlvania't Fair to-
Night nnd Tucadny, warmer In
northern and weateru portions to
night. Strong aouthweat wind*.
Hirer
The Sukqarfuaui river and ita
tributaries will fall *lol> except
"here influenced •>>■' Ice Jama. The
Ice moved at llarriaburg at 2.6s p.m.
the river reaching a xtage
. y.S" ou{ 2.4S p. m.j It moved
nl \\ illia rapport Sunday nigbt on 7
I'"' of , \V r ' There la a gorge In
I Inc creek bHon WatrrvllJe and
tnere are probably Korre and ice
jam* in other tream. but none of
murh importance. The lee remain-
Inic In the treaxriii of the
I ennsylvanla above IlarrlMburae l
montly nfloa*. bavins moved on
comparatively low mtascn without
canning any damaue to property
o far am known except the lon* of
a few boat.. A atage of about f1.3
feet l Indicated for IfarrlahurK
Tuesday morning.
UeaeraD I oudltioaa
l*reaaure la low over C anada nnd
the northern part of the t'nlted
"tatea. A high preaaure nrea of un
uaunl strength eovera the Pacific
alope nnd one of leaa atrength la
central over the Kaat t.uif Statea.
Xo precipitin lon occurred In the
laat 24 hour* except atonic the north
ern boundary from the (ireat takes
eaatwnrd to the Atlantic.
Temperature H a. m.. 2N.
Sunt Rlaea, 7.2H n. in.; aeta, 4.5
p. m.
Moon; Hlaea, K. 49 p. m.
River Stage, 7.2 feet above low
(rater mark.
VeaterdaY'a Weather
Highest temperature, Hi.
lonrat (rmpernture, 211.
Mean temperature, 40.
Surma I temperature, 29.
FIGHT ON AGAINST WENT MILK
IF THIS KEEPS UPTOffIMATE CONSUMER ;
WLL SOON HAVE
AKK 0 " J™!; DEALERS WAN
mux Sctm*i BIG FlfaHT ON <HtNT MILK certain famous produce and
lAtiTiON FINOS sue H NO HAND IN BOOSTING KICK
8-HOUR LAW
TEST CASE IS
BEING ARGUED
Climax in Legal Contest Over
Constitutionality Reaches
Supreme Court
Washington, D. C- Jan. B.—The ell- '
max in the legal contest over consti
tutionality of the Adamson law was
reached to-day in the Supreme Court.
Arguments were begun in the Mis
souri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad's
test case. In which the Department of
Justice is appealing from Federal
Judge Hook's decision at Kansas City,
■ Mo., that the law passed last Septem
: her when a nation-wide railroad strike
seemed imminent is "unconstitutional,
null and void."
i Conclusion of the arguments late
I to-morrow Is expected. They are the
I first on the merits of the Adamson law
in any court. Judge Hook having hur
-1 riedly decided the case without formal
| hearings in order to expedite the ap
peal for the Supreme Court's final de
termination, A decision Is expected
within a few weeks at most.
Voluminous briefs were filed to-day
j by the federal and railroad counsel
before the beginning of the argu
ments, which proceeded after an-
I nouncement by the court of numerous
opinions and orders upon reconvening
after it* holiday recees.
Numerous precedents. Including Su
preme Court decisions, were cited In
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CARRY $179,000,000 ON STREET.
New York, Jan, *.—During the Sun
day quiet In Wall street treasure
amounting to $179,000,00 of which
$7,000,000 was cask, was transported
through the deserted street under es
cort of a group of special heavily
! armed policemen. The occasion was
the moving of the Metropolitan Trust
Company Into new quarters.
nSAI. AKOI'MENT IN SMALL CASE
Osslpee, N, H, Jan, B,—Final argu
ments were made to-day In the trial
of Frederick 1., Small, charged with
the murder of his wife, Florence A.
Small,
| INAUGURATE GOVERNOR
Indianapolis, Ind„ Jan. B.—Slm
' pliclty characterized the Inauguration
j of James P, Goodrich. Republican, as
governor of Indiana, here to-day. He
; succeeds Governor Samuel M. Raliiton,
| Democrat,
! HITS LAST LONE TRAIL AT 105.
Wrangell, Alaska. Jan. B.—John
I Flnla.vson, an explorer, for whom Fln
layson river and Flnlayson lake In
I Yukon territory were named, died to
! day aged 105 years. Flnlayson was a
[ native of Scotland. He prospected
and mined gold In California and Ore
gon unUl he was sfl years old and then
j went to British Columbia and Yukon
I territory where he explored large
i areas into which white men had never
I penetrated,
ELECTROCUTE MURDERER
Bellefonte, Pa., Jan. B.—Jonas
: Brobst, of county, was electro
| cuted at the Kockvlew Penitentiary
I to-day for the killing cf his wife at
Allentown last May,
Brobst was twenty-two years
old and the wife he killed twenty.
The pair had been separated some
weeks and Brobst went to the home
of his wife's parents to Induce her to
return home, Refusing to do so he
shot her dead as she reclined In a
hammock on the porch,
BAND TO GREET TROOPERS
The Publicity and Conventions De
partment of the Harrlsburg Chamber
of Commerce which has charge of the
! reception of Troop C, the Governor's
Troop on arrival In this city, has se
| cured the services of a band for the
I parade.
HARRISBURG, PA., MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1917
VON MACKENSEN BREAKS
THROUGH SERETH BARRIER
Field Marshal Von Mackensen has
broken through the strongly defended
barrier before the river Sereth which
the Russians had constructed at Fok
shani. has captured that important
Rumanian town and taken nearly
4.000 prisoners and three guns in the
process.
This notable success in the attack
upon the Sereth line, which the Rus
sians have flung across Southern Mol
davia, was won by a successful flank
ing operation the Berlin report indi
cates.
Some nine miles northwest of Fok
shani, the dominating height of Odo
bechti was taken by storm, giving a
vantage point for the artillery. Fur
ther south, a passage of the river
Milcovu, which has been strongly
fortified, was forced and Teutonic
columns pressed their way in behind
the former Russian line. Giving the
foe no time to place the Fokshani-
Tarestea canal position in a state of
defense, they fought their way in fur
ther and sealed the fate of Fokshani,
which was captured.
Russians Ijbsc Further North
The Russians also haVe lost ground
further north along the Moldavian
frontier between the Putna and Oitez
valleys, Berlin announces. Towards
the Danube from Fokshani, however,
Recover SIO,OOO Stolen
by Bandits at Tarentum
Pittsburgh, Jan. B.—Cai.iello Turco,
the Adams Express messenger in
charge of the payroll of the Flaccus
Glass Company when It was stolen by
automobile bandits at Tarentum, near
here, last Saturday, was released from
Jail to-day by order of E. H. Jackson,
district attorney, who decided Turco
was not a party to the robbery. The
other three men under arrest, D. E.
King, driver of the glass company's
automobile, from which the money
was stolen; John Hummel and Karl
Schwartz, business men of Brecken
rldge. Pa., were still being held by the
county authorities. Later John M.
Dunn, assistant district attorney, left
the courthouse with Hummel and a
party of county detective* and, guided
by Hummel, went to a point in the
wood near Tarentum, where they re
covered the money. It was still In the
satchel In which it had been packed at
the bank.
AROUSED AT U-BOAT OUTRAGE.
Madrid, via Paris, Jan 7.—Public
Indignation has been aroused through
the publication of a telegram received
by the manager of the Cartagena
Navigation Company confirming the
report that the San was tor
pedoed by a German submarine.
WHO IS MYSTERIOUS JOHN
V. GARNER SPRINKLING SSO
CHECKS IN BLAIR COUNTY?
Who in the mysterious John V. Gar
ner, of Harrisburg. who has been
sprinkling SSO checks In Blair county?
According to the Blair county war
correspondents, wlio are nothing if
not veracious. John V. Garner, of
Harrlsburg, sent Karle Carles, of Bell
wood. SSO because Carles loaned him
enough money to get to Harrlsburg.
Inquiry among the Garner families of
this city today failed to reveal the
identity of the |SO check writer. None
knew him,
"John V. Garner," described as the
son of a real estate man of this city,
went to the Carles home the morning
of December 20. He said he was all
In; down and out. He asked Carles to
lean him enftugh money to get to
Harrisburg.
"You won't be sorry," said "John
V. Garner," "As soon as I get home
I'll see that you are well repaid."
The war correspondents go on to
the latest reports showed a Russian
offensive of some importance which!
admittedly had succeeded in gaining
ground from Von Mackensen's forces.
There are also indications that the
Russian line towards the Danube
where an advance by the Austro-,
German-Bulgarian armies is being
pressed, is holding more successfully
than recently.
While Fokshani is some distance
south of the river Sereth itself, and
the Russians still have that river upon
which to fall back, the capture of the
town, it appears, weakens appreciably
the whole Russian position in this
area and makes the river line itself
more difficult to defend successfully.
Offensive Launched.
While this heavy fighting has been
in progress in the Rumanian war
theater the Russians have launched
an offensive on the extreme north of
their line, between Dvinsk and Riga.
Renewing their attack, which last
Friday resulted in a gain of ground
along the river Aa they succeeded
yesterday in enlarging the scope of
their gain.
On the Franco-Belgian front, patrol
and announces the bringing down of
in the war office statements. Berlin
reports considerable aviation activity
and announce the bringing down of
six hostile airplanes during the day.
Earn SI,OOO a Year? You
May Soon Pay Income Tax
Washington, D. C.. Jan. 8. —With
the return to Washington this week
of Chairman Kitchin, of the ways and
means committee. Democratic leaders
of the House will turn their attention
to the revenue problem and revenue
legislation may be attempted at the
present ohort session. Additional reve
nue of approximately $200,000,000
must be raised by taxation, this
amount being above the nearly
$300,000,000 for which Secretary
McAdoo has suggested a bond Issue.
A lowering of the Income tax ex
emption, abolishment of the free list
and a horizontal Increase of about 10
per cent. In all existing duties, a con
sumption tax on sugar, a new tax on
"excess profits" of corporations and In
creased levies on wool, manufactured
rubber and coffee and a rovlslon of the
Inheritance tax law are means under
consideration by members of the
House committee.
The taxation of incomes as low as
SI,OOO per annum has been suggested
by the Democrats.
BRITISH CRUISER IX PACIFIC
San Francisco, Cal., Jan. B.—The
presence In the Pacific ocean of a Brit
ish auxiliary cruiser, presumably a
former Peninsular and Oriental liner,
was reported here to-day by officers
of the Norwegian steamer Curzco,
which arrived from Mexican ports.
say that Carles, of Bellwood, was
struck with the honest appearance of
his youthful visitor: and took him in
the house. gsve nim a warm meal and
bought him a ticket to Harrisburg.
Three days later, the story goes on.
Carles, a lumberman, opened a letter
he received and was greatly over
joyed when a pink check fluttered to
the floor, it called for the payment
of SSO. There was alao a Christmas
card and a letter saying that "John
V. Garner" had arrived home Bafely,
thanks to the Bellwood man.
The war correspondents neglected
to tell whether or not the check passed
through the regular channels as safely
as "John V. Garner" got to Harris
burg, but It is the presumption that
it did.
Efforts to locate "John V. Garner"
to-day were futile. None of the Gar
ners knew "John V. Garner." al
though several of them had read of
the check episode.
BIG FIGHT ON
MILK INCREASE
COMES TO FOCUS
Producers and Retailers Will |
Meet This Week to Take
Decisive Aetions
Wholesale and retail dairymen, in
the throes of another fight on an ad
vance in milk prices by the former,
are preparing for meetings this week
when final action will probably be
taken on the raise.
The situation remains unchanged so
far as the proposed increase stands.
G. L,. Strock, president of the Dairy
men's League of Dauphin and Cum
berland counties, said that producers
may adopt a 20-cent rate for six
months, and an 18-cent rate for the
other half year.
j Retail men under the leadership of
I President C. E. Cooper, of the city
I dairymen's league, are willing to pay
| cither the present 18-cent rate during
| the entire year, or 20 cents per gallon
| for six months and 16 cents per gal
lon during the other six months.
The farmers will probably decide
1 on an increase to retailers of cent a
quart during six months of the year
only, they declare. Both wholesalers
and retailers claim big advances in
production cost and delivery cost are
' responsible for the proposed increase.
City dealers are organizing a fight
to keep down the price while the pro
-1 ducers are gathering facts and figures
■to prove their declarations that an 18-
! cent rate during the entire year results
| in a loss to them. *
"Aunt" Harriet, Who
Learned to Read and
Write at 68, Is Dead
Mrs. Harriet Harris, known as
"Aunt" Harriet to hundreds of Har
rißburg businessmen, is dead at her
: home. 671 Briggs street. Although
| serving in the humble capacity of
! janitress and charwoman for several
i of the office buildings of the city she
I was known and respected by many of
! the leading men of the city.
She was born a slave in Virginia
and was in the city of Richmond dur
ing the siege by the northern armies.
Immediately after the war she came
to this city.
Heir to the ignorance that went
with slavery still "Aunt" Harriet was
always determined that as soon as the
opportunity presented itself she would
acquire at least the ability to read
and write. Four years ago at the ad
vanced age of 68 she entered one of
the night schools of the city, where
in spite of her years she made rapid
progress, soon mastering the coveted
branches.
New York Port Trade
Totals Four Billions
New York. Jan. S.—Of every SIOO
worth of foreign trade in the United
States in 1916, $52 was transacted in
New York, according to figures made
public to-day by the Collector of the
Customs showing that the foreign
trade of this port during the past cal
endar year was valued at $4,069,000,-
000. No other harbor in the world
ever transacted trade to such an extent
in a single year, it was stated. The
total averages about S4O a head in the
country's population.
Customs duties collected here last
year amounted to $153,211,939 or al
most half a million dollars for each
business day. March was the record
month, with $14,948,476.
MARINER I.KAVK FOR HAYTI.
Philadelphia. Jan. B.—Two hun
dred marines left the Philadelphia
navy yard to-day on the transport
Hancock for Hayti where they will
relieve men on duty there. The Han
cock took along a large quantity of
stores for ships on duty in Haytlan
and San Domingo waters.
"LEAKS TO
STREET COMMONEST
THINGS "-LA TO ON
Has Running Row With Committee Investigation of Peace
Note; Says Financial Men Get Advance Information
From Washington on Supreme Court Decisions, Sen
ate Matters, Congressional Committee Action, Cabi
net Affairs and Even "Direct From White House"
TUMULTY DECLARES IN STATEMENT
HE NEVER KNEW OF PEACE NOTE
I
President's Secretary Denies His Implication; Takes
Whack at Representative Wood; Wilson Prepared
and Wrote Note on Typewriter Himself
Washington. Jail. S. Thomas \V.i
Ijawson, occupied much of to-day's I
session of the House Rules Commit
tee hearing on the alleged stock mar- j
ket leak on President Wilson's peace |
note, with a running row with the'
committee which ended in much of!
his statements being expunged from !
the record and concluded with the 1
declaration that he. could tell where I
the leak was but wouldn't.
At the outset of the hearing Secre- \
tary Tumulty read a statement, en-1
dorsed by President Wilson, that he!
had no knowledge whatever of the'
President's note before it was an-!
nounced to the newspapers and Secre- ]
tary Lansing gave testimony about the|
handling of the document after it got
to the State Department. Both denied
they had been able to find any "leak."
Lawson began his statement to the
committee with general declarations
which soon led into an uproar. It
Harrisburg. The Pennsylvania electoral college aci T
journed at 3.25 p. m., after voting for Hughes and Fair- f
banks, directing that telegrams be sent to Messrs. HughCs 1 ;
and Fairbanks, Chairman Oliver having named the neces- J
sary messengers to deliver the returns to the United States | I
Senate and elsewhere as required by law. ,
MUNICIPAL LE. O MEET
Members of the executive committee of the Municipal f
League met at noon to-day for a general discussion of the |
big city improvments that are now under way, .including j
the high school plans and the new hotel. Mo action was < r' y f
taken on any plans for the year. ' H'jl
MARYSVILLE ORDER STANDS ! ,
The Public Service Commission has refused a modi- ) >
fication of the order in the Valley Railways case in which 1 '
additional cars for MarysviP.c were ordered. The company <| P
asked to be relieved of the order because it was said the j' *
additional cars were not patronized sufficiently to make j I
them profitable. The effect of to-day's decision is that the j
cars must be run. i j
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WHEAT AT $2.00; GRAIN MARKET SOARS , ,
Chicago. Jan. B.—For the firs time, war prices on wheat " t
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here touched to-day a long-predicted goal, two dollars a ' ■
bushel. 1 '
Wjlkes-Barre, Pa., Jan. 8. A panic was created in 1
10-day when it was discovered that Jose] !i j *
Pasquele, I'ittston, had two sticks of dynamite in his pocket | !
when he was called before Judge S. J. Strauss for sentence j r
for the dynamiting of the home ot Michael Loughriey, of
Pittston, during the I. W. W. outrages, a few months ago. j
Harrisburg.—City official circles were astounded this : j
afternoon to learn that Mayor E. S. Meals has under con- j I
sideration the appointment of Abe Roat as a city detective. , I
It was recalled that Roat and his wife figured in a sens a- j |
tional conspiracy case involving wealthy resident of Green j . ;£j
county, in which they Were alleged to have "framed up" a <
blackmailing scheme to defeat him for a county office. I*. !
was generally conceded that Roat has a wide knowledge of ' E '
the underworld, but, in police circle it was said that he had *
never be< i considered as a prop. • person for city dctect ; ve. 1 ,
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MARRIAGE LICENSES ~~
tiforgf Washington Wanarr and llorn l.lla Ulaan, city. < '
John Mirnlfer, Jr.. Mlddlefonn, nnd BliMbcili Kalxer, Steeltoa.
I'rtvr llnrl mid I.lan .SzmrdU, Mrrllun.
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i ended by the clerk of the houst
forcing him to his chair and the com
mittee voting unanimously to expungt
the whole exchange from the record,
| The stenographer had missed much
' of it in the confusion.
Finally when Chairman Henry goi
1 Lawson down to a cross-examination
1 the Boston financier said in effect li
1 could tell, but wouldn't and at thai
point the committee recessed for
'• lunch.
Lawson Says He's a Former
' Thomas W. Lawson followed Mr.
Lansing. Told by Chairman Henry
that he might "proceed in his own
way for the present." Mr. Lawson
j asked if he were to be stopped at any
point in his talk. Mr. Henry said that
would depend entirely on whether ha
confined himself to the subject beforq
the committee.
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